In Photos: Sonic Masala Fest 2016 @ Greenslopes Bowls Club, 13.08.2016 – Part 1

Part 1/2 of photos from Sonic Masala Fest 2016 at Greenslopes Bowls Club, featuring Budd, Spirit Bunny, The Stress Of Leisure, Bent, Eat Laser Scumbag!, Fraudband, Cool Sounds and Astral Skulls.
In Photos: Trust Punks + Thigh Master + Clever + Bent @ The Foundry, 21.07.2016

New Zealand’s Trust Punks play a show at The Foundry to launch their ‘Double Bind’ album, with support from Bent, Clever and Thigh Master.
The return of Everett True | 139. WetDog

I found this on the Upset The Rhythm homepage. You might want to give it a listen, cousins. It might not excite you. I don’t care, really. It makes me happy, bounce to the ceiling. It makes me happy, sit on my glasses. It makes me happy, sprawled across grass. It makes me happy, search out […]
The return of Everett True | 136. The Friendsters

Missed them at Happyfest. I had me a good time there, but… now? I feel like a right tart. Goddamn it. I left straight after Bent’s set to catch the bus. Fucking bus. I should’ve walked the 9.6km back to The Gap instead. It would only’ve taken around 100 minutes. Fucktard. Not only did I […]
Bent + Raus + California Girls @ The Haunt, Brisbane, 27.03.15

This is part of Happyfest, a fundraiser for 4ZZZ. 4ZZZ is a Brisbane institution, a community radio station that served as a focal point for dissent during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years. The fact it’s taken me seven years to make contact – I finally performed live on Matt Kennedy’s show on Wednesday as part of BLMW15 – goes […]
What I did last night instead of seeing Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks play live

I watched a few episodes from season 3 of The West Wing and thought, not for the first time, this is the cast of Friends moved to the White House. I wondered whether there was even the remotest possibility Stephen and his band could be even a 10th as good as this cover version would indicate – and […]
The people have spoken | 10 great songs from 2014-5

When I say “people”, I mean Collapse Board readers. But that’s OK, you’re one of them. When I say “Collapse Board readers”, I mean a handful of Collapse Board readers. But that’s OK, you may well be one of them. The way it works is that a week or so back, I compiled a virtual […]
The return of Everett True | 96. Bent

I’m more familiar with this type of music than I ought to be, but that’s hardly Bent’s fault. I note on the same SoundCloud that this Bent album is available from – and sure, it squalls and scratches and irritates in all the right places – that there’s a new compilation coming out, Escape From […]
Go Genre Everything + Scrabbled + Gravel Samwidge + The Legend! + Nana Vigilante + Bent @ Chardons Corner Hotel, Brisbane, 30.11.13

Being different isn’t always glamorous and is rarely rewarded with dollars.